I have to admit to the embarrassment of riches in the form of ALOT of locos for at least two of the games. And enough locos for most of the them. It is always easier to only worry about selecting the best route without worrying too much about the colors.

Poetic justice in game 7 in the form of GFF getting Dal-NY after dea was stuck with it a couple of times. But, Dal-NY doesn't sting so much if you have 8 locos.

1st game: perfect game with 42 ticket points, 6 locos and without start - got closer than I wanted it - 129:121 - still no loss with 42 in more than 10.000 games

2nd game: Van-Mon + Van-SF with start vs not so good ticks. Only 2 locos but good colors - 120:102

3rd game: Cal-Pho + Chi-NO (LA-Mia dropped, maybe wrong decision, but I started with 0 locos/black/green/red) vs LA-Chi + Den-Pitts (or similar). Too many problems with colors/locos, but could have played 5 white (Den-Pho) earlier to have a chance at least. Very good SF-LA with 2 locos by mef, destroying any hope. In the end I miscounted my 9 cards and took instead of playing costing me 28 points, but it didn't matter - 77:120

6th game: Win-Hou + Win-Little (SSM-Nash dropped, close decision) with start vs Port-Nash + Tor-Mia + Chi-NO.
mef started with 6 orange, 6 pink, 6 yellow, shocking me a bit (3 ticks! ), but had to slow down (Sea-Port, Nash-Atl, ...), and I got the time+colors for a perfect 45 route (SSM-Win-Cal-Hel-5 red-Den-Okl-ElP-Hou and 3 more green to end the game with sure longest and a guarantied win

Very exciting match and super play by superpello who made me down a dozen rolaids in pulling this out.

GM 1 Tinman 119 - SuperPello 110
Thought Pello would win with hou/no 2er at the end, but luckily he needed to connect to Winn.

GM 2 Tinman 114 - SuperPello 114
I could have won this if I paid attention and blocked houston, but my focus on longest cost me a tie.

GM 3 SuperPello 131 - Tinman 99
Disaster game for me. Bad colors, no locos and a great route and locos for Pello. This one was over before it began.

GM 4 SuperPello 68 - Tinman 49
Another game I could have won if I just blocked Hel/Den. Thought I was blocking 42 but it turned out Pello had Van/sf with Sea/NY. By not blocking 4 green it allowed him to connect Van/SF

GM 5 Tinman 132 - SuperPello 106
First game that flowed easy for me. LA/MIA & Hel/LA. was able to play 4 6's and get longest. Pello had Chgo/SF & Den/Pitt for a difficult route.

GM 6 Tinman 102 - SuperPello 92
Back against the wall and Rolaids in hand, the TTR Gods showed me favor with LA/Chgo & Por/Nash to Pellos 2 little east tix. But I almost blew this one as well by falling asleep on connecting to Nash and allowing Pello to block every entrance. Fortunately by him playing little blocks I was able to earn many more track points and longest for the win.

Great match and I will be looking for Marco in the top 100 someday if he continues to play the way he did today.